Go Ogle 2011
We will run Go Ogle, our annual online quiz on 1st Jan 2011. This is the sixth edition of the quiz.
The questions will be posted at 1800hrs and will stay up till 1000hrs on 2nd January 2011.
The quiz will be posted at our community blog Daly Haal
http://community. livejournal. com/kqaquizzes
This year’s prizes:
I: Rs. 2000/-
II: Rs. 1500/-
III: Rs. 1000/-
in book-coupons from Blossom Book Shop, Bangalore.
Previous editions of the quiz can be accessed at
http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/2010/01/01/
http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/2009/01/01/
http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/2008/01/01/
http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/13062.html
http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/2006/01/01/
Who can participate
Go Ogle is a solo quiz open to:
- Registered members of the KQA blog Daly Haal who can prove that they are not the quizmaster.
- Everybody else, as long as they are willing to provide full name, mailing address and phone number in a mail to Mahaquizzer @gmail.com. Such entrants must also leave their full names at the end of their entry for the quiz.
GO Ogle 2011 Answers
http://community.livejournal.com/kqaquizzes/278679.html
Mega-Whats 2010 Rankings
202 teams wrote Mega-Whats this year, a small increase over last year.
QED (Chennai) win, with 76 points. A list of the top 100 teams is also provided. Adjudication has resulted in many small changes to scores–the two-pointer section seems to have posed some numerical challenge to people correcting.
If there are errors with names, or if you have questions, please email Mahaquizzer@gmail.com.
The Mega-Whats Face-off will take place as announced in June 2011, with a small modification: we will have two semis featuring the ten city-winners and the six teams that placed in the top ten without actually winning in their city followed by a final in which the top four teams from each semi will slug it out.
A special word of thanks to the Bangalore teams for putting up with cramped conditions without complaint. Seven teams wrote the quiz seated on the floor. Similar stories came in from Chennai and New Delhi.
We thank all the teams that participated, as also the the city-coords for this year’s quiz(Ashwan Lewis, Anurakshat Gupta, Dr. Vijaynath, Anuradha Yogesh, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee, Vivek ND, Vishwajeeth Narvekar, and Siby Kuriakose).
Thanks are also due to the quizzing communities that help make Mega-Whats possible: QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC Hyderabad, SEQC Goa, Kutub Quizzers ( New Delhi), BCQC Pune, BQC-Mumbai, Coimbatore Quizzing Circle, and the quizzing communities in Kerala and Kolkata.
We also thank the individuals who helped swing prizes and venues in various cities: Gopal Kidao (Chennai), Nitish Khadiya ( Hyderabad), Hrishi Varma (Thrissur), Ramanand J (Pune), Dr. Bhattacharya ( New Delhi), Rajiv and Tallulah D’Silva ( Panaji), Senthil Kumar (Coimbatore), Rajiv Rai and Vibhendu Tewari ( Mumbai) and Gautam Ghosh ( Kolkata). None of this would have been possible if not for their efforts.
| TEAM | CITY | CATEGORY | SCORE | |
| 1 | QED
Swaminathan, Gopal Kidao, Samanth, Jayakanthan |
CHENNAI
City Winners |
OPEN | 76 |
| 2 | METAQUIZZIKS
Mitesh Agarwal, Cheriyan Alexander, Varun Rajiv, Santosh Swaminathan |
BANGALORE
City Winners |
OPEN | 71 |
| 3 | INSIGNIFICANT OTHERS
Sreeram, Sankhya, Ramkumar, Vijay |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 60 |
| 4 | WE ARE LIKE THIS WONLY
Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma, Arun HIregange, Thejaswi Udupa |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 55 |
| 5 | TRAVELLING PILSBURY
Anil Kothuri, Sumo, Rajiv Rai, Vibhendu Tewari |
MUMBAI
City Winners |
OPEN | 53 |
| 6 | BONG CONNECTION
Shouvik Guha, Abhijit Banerjee, Ashoke Sanyal, Somnath Chanda |
KOLKATA
City Winners |
OPEN | 52 (8*) |
| 7 | QUESTIONABLE CHARACTERS
Hiranyappa GS, Rajeev Gowda, Movin Miranda, Dibyendu Das |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 52 (4*) |
| 8 | SUV-LOVING CAPITALIST PRICKS
Pravin Varma, Shubhankar Gokhale, Srinath Narayan, Abhinav Dasgupta |
MUMBAI | OPEN | 48 (7*) |
| 9 | MUSTAFA
Debashree Mitra, NVS Krishnan, Lahar Appaiah, Ashok Krishnan |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 48 (6*, 20) |
| 10 | KEEP DISTANCE
Rahul Kottalgi, Rajath Krishna, Nishanth Raman, Kaustuba V |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 48 (6*, 16) |
| 11 | INMANIACS
Gautam Ghosh, Jayashree Mohanka, Malavika Banerjee, Anirudh Chari |
KOLKATA | OPEN | 47 (7*, 21) |
| 12 | QUARTER, HALF & FEEDING-BOTTLE
Arun, Krishnamurthy, Rohit, Yagnyesh |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 47 (7*, 17) |
| 13 | SWAMI AND FRIENDS
(Krishnamurthi, Alagasamy, Bhargava, Nitish Khadiya) |
HYDERABAD
City Winners |
OPEN | 46 (9*. 15) |
| 14 | Mukund Sridhar, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Vikram Joshi, Balakrishnan S. | MUMBAI | OPEN | 46 (6*, 13) |
| 15 | OBAMA’S MEMORY BANKS
Saranya Jaikumar, Navin Jaikumar, Ramkey, Shiv. |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 43 (7*, 16) |
| TEAM | CITY | CATEGORY | SCORE | |
| 16 | GUESSWORKS, INC.
Manjith, Praveen VR, Roshith Mohan, Hrishi Varma |
THRISSUR
City Winners |
OPEN | 43 (6*, 15) |
| 17 | KARTIK BOSE FC
Meghashyam, Anand, Atul, Anannya |
MUMBAI | OPEN | 42 (6*) |
| 18 | DAYDREAMERS
Roshan, Sabyasachi Majumdar, S.Bhattacharya, Udatta Duarah |
NEW DELHI
City Winners |
OPEN | 42 (4*) |
| 19 | FENI VIDI VICI TWITCHY
Ajachi Chakrabarti, Aniruddha Sengupta, Harsh Bhatkuly, Rajiv D’Silva |
PANAJI
City Winners |
OPEN | 41 (6*) |
| 20 | DHAKKAN CHARGERS
Priyambad, Anil Kumar, GV, Ravi Mundoli |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 41 (5*) |
| 21 | THE HAMMURABIS
Vinay Vasisht, Sutanu Mukherjee, Prakash Chandrashekar, Sumeer Kumar |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 40 (3*) |
| 22 | Kunal, Sid Sen, Sneha, Hari | NEW DELHI | OPEN | 39 (6*) |
| 23 | AMRUTANJAN MUDWRESTLERS
Govind Grewal, Souvik Basu, Ameya Sawant |
MUMBAI | OPEN | 37 (6*) |
| 24 | ZEROWHAT LAG GAYI
Joy, Kedar, Avinash G, Avinash Mudaliar |
NEW DELHI | OPEN | 37 (3*) |
| 25 | HAMMER AND TONGS
Anil, Kinshuk, Saunak, Aryapriya |
KOLKATA | OPEN | 34 (6*) |
| 26 | ANSWERING SERVICE
Soubhadra C, Sanjoy Mukherjee, Charanpreet Singh, P. Srikant |
KOLKATA | OPEN | 34 (3*, 14) |
| 27 | REST HOUSE CROISSANTS
Urmila Lakshmanan, Shiv Kannan, Shobhana, Vivek |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 33 (3*, 13) |
| 28 | INSERT UNCOOL NAME HERE
Abid, Anil Raghavan, Manu Sudhakar, Shamanth Rao |
THRISSUR | OPEN | 33 (3*, 10) |
| 29 | MEGA WTF
Ramanand J, Suraj, Harish Kumar BV, Suvajit Chakraborty |
PUNE
City Winners |
OPEN | 32 (5*, 13) |
| 30 | ALCOHOLICS UNITED
Arun AS, Chandrakant Nair, Jithin Jacob, Viswas Viswam |
THRISSUR | OPEN | 32 (5*, 12) |
| 31 | LAJAWAB
Lathish, Ani, Prasanna, Praveen |
HYDERABAD | OPEN | 32 (4*, 13) |
| 32 | POTOLDANGA THUNDER CLUB
Prithwish Datta. Robin Dey, Panchajanya M, S. Mitra |
KOLKATA | OPEN | 32 (4*, 10) |
| 33 | I CAN HAS GOOGLE
Sunil Chandrashekar, Ranjiv Rai, Nilay P, Abhijeet K. |
KOLKATA | OPEN | 31 (6*) |
| 34 | MORALLY QUESTIONABLE ENTERPRISE
Balaji TK, Devi Prasad, Ashwin, Rajagopal PS. |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 31 (5*) |
| 35 | LOTUS EATERS
Abinav, Ajay, Ninad, Shubhendu |
NEW DELHI | OPEN | 30 (5*) |
| 36 | EUREQA
Suresh, Sreekanth G, Navin Rajaram, Satyajit Chetri |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 30 (3*) |
| 37 | HYPOGLYCAEMICS ANON
Rashmin Gandhi, Sridhar Baratan, Sandeep Thirumalai, Akshay Nair |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 29 (6*, 12) |
| 38 | SUMANT & TEAM
Smitha, Sumant, Titarsh, Raghu |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 29 (6*, 10) |
| 39 | THE AVANT GARDES
Amit Garde, Radhika Garde, Mohit Karve |
PUNE | OPEN | 29 (3*) |
| 40 | EPIC (NIT TRICHY)
Pramod, Nitish, Vivek, Akshay. |
CHENNAI | COLLEGE | 28 (4*) |
| 41 | Sudip K Dey, Shiladitya G, Bhaskar Datta, Bhavin Zaveri | KOLKATA | OPEN | 28 (2*) |
| 42 | ABSOLUT QUIZZING
Francis Rodrigues, Prasann Potdar, Mukund Krishnan |
MUMBAI | OPEN | 27 (6*, 13) |
| 43 | ANON +3
Apoorva, Nandita, Mani, MP |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 27 (6*, 12) |
| 44 | HOLY NEXUS
Landmark Venky, Kivi, Rashmi Vallabhajyosula, Gautham Chundi |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 27 ( 4*) |
| 45 | ANOTHER RAJNIKANTH JOKE—SASTRA UNIV
Sridhar, Pranav, Visaka, Sudharshan |
CHENNAI | COLLEGE | 26 (4*, 10) |
| 46 | DR. JOSEPH VIJAY SAAR ETC
Aditya, Ashok, Raghuvansh, Anantha |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 26 (4*, 6) |
| 47 | LW & COB
Sandeep, Harsha, Vybhavi, Vikram |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 25 (6*) |
| 48 | CROMAGNON CROOKS
Suman De, Ravi Ananthan, Arvind Ashokan, Ayan Ghosh. |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 24 (4*) |
| 49 | NOT APPLICABLE
Debjit Dasgupta, Anupam Sinha, Rohan Mishra, Navneet Bal. |
HYDERABAD | OPEN | 24 (5*, 7) |
| 50 | GOAT BOYS—MSRIT
Abhishek, Umang, Maitrey, Vishnu |
BANGALORE | COLLEGE | 24 (4*) |
| TEAM | CITY | CATEGORY | SCORE | |
| 51 | PEEPLI’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Anilesh, Paritosh, Abhinav Gandhi, Dhruv Mangal |
NEW DELHI | OPEN | 24 (2*) |
| 52 | NEVER MIND THE SEX PISTOLS
Goutham, Gudur, Holla, Appar |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 23 (6*, 8) |
| 53 | ARNOLD SHIVAJINAGAR ETC
Debasish Mishra, Devang Ghia, Dushyant Mullur, Akshat Trivedi |
MUMBAI | OPEN | 23 (6*, 7) |
| 54 | MAINGATE TO BARKHAGATE
Ravikiran Ramaswamy,Jayadev Bhaskaran, Swaroop, Aaslesh Y. |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 23 (4*, 5) |
| 55 | SAXXI (NALSAR)
(Varun Agarwal, Abdul Akhtar) |
KOLKATA | COLLEGE | 23 (4*, 4) |
| 56 | Amrutanshu Mishra, Harsh Ketkar, Ishan Mahajan, Sarat Rao | KOLKATA | OPEN | 22 (5*) |
| 57 | WE’LL WIKILEAK THE ANSWERS
Mashi, Renuka, Arun, Ajay. |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 22 (4*) |
| 58 | MERA NAAM JOKA
Arnav Sinha, VIkas Sahu, Jitaditya Narzari, Supriyo Saha |
MUMBAI | OPEN | 22 (2*) |
| 59 | FLIGHT OF THE VAAYU VAJRAS
Abhishek, Karthik, Aditya |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 21 (5*) |
| 60 | 2.5 MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS
Gautham, Rahul Gupta, Vineeth Raj, Sudarshan MA |
BANGALORE | COLLEGE | 21 (2*) |
| 61 | WHATEVER
Tushar Krishnan, Saurabh Chadhary, Dhruv Sharma |
NEW DELHI | OPEN | 21 (1*) |
| 62 | DESPERATELY SEEKING QUALIFN
Sanandan, Patrick, Ananth, Amar |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 20 ( 3*, 9) |
| 63 | KULLA SEKAR MAGGU MONK
Abhishek, Bharath, Siddharth, Vivek |
HYDERABAD | OPEN | 20 (3*, 7) |
| 64 | Vinod & Ashwathy | BANGALORE | OPEN | 20 (2*) |
| 65 | RIDE OF THE KOZHI CURRIES
Keshav Athreya, Rammohan, Ashwin, Venkataramana |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 19 (5*, 2) |
| 66 | SAGUN VIKRAM SANGH
Kapil, Udayan, Vivek |
MUMBAI | OPEN | 19 (4*, 5) |
| 67 | Shivaprakash, Shreyas, Mithraa and Gautham | CHENNAI | OPEN | 19 (3*) |
| 68 | LAST ACTION HEROES
Sumanta Gupta, Parthasarathi Ghatak, Richard Mistry, Samrat Dutta THREE MEN AND A BABY Vishnu Vijay, Shibin Azad, Saptarshi Purohit, Midhun D.E. SHAW Anang Rawat, Akhila Athresh, Narayanan Vijayraghavan
|
KOLKATA
THRISSUR HYDERABAD
|
OPEN
OPEN OPEN
|
19 (2*, 9)
19 (2*, 9) 19 (2*, 9)
|
| 71 | Vikas, Debasish, Rajiv, Priyanka | KOLKATA | OPEN | 19 (2*, 8) |
| 72 | Siri Srinivas, Darshan, Sharath, Srikanth | BANGALORE | OPEN | 19 (1*, 7) |
| 73 | ST. JOSEPH’S BHS
Siddarth Pai, Darren Lobo, Sahaj, Nihal |
BANGALORE | COLLEGE | 19 (1*, 6) |
| 74 | MEGAMINDS
Vignesh, Shanmathi, Shreyas, Anirudh |
CHENNAI | OPEN | 18 (4*, 7) |
| 75 | SCHRODINGER’S FELINES
Gautam Shenoy, Pallavi Mohanty, Vaibhav |
BANGALORE | OPEN | 18 (3*) |
| 76 | LATERAL THINKERS
Supratim Chakladar, Kaushik Mukherjee, Indranil Mukherjee, Saswata C |
KOLKATA | OPEN | 18 (2*, 8) |
| 77 | 404
Anirudh, Gaurav, Harish,Marco
TEEN TIGADA KAAM BIGADA Surya, Bobby, Raghu |
CHENNAI
NEW DELHI |
OPEN
OPEN |
18 (2*, 7)
18 (2*, 7) |
| 79 | URF PROFESSORS
Siddharth Shrivastava, Kumar Tanwar, Lingaraj, Rohit Iyer |
NEW DELHI | OPEN | 18 (2*, 4) |
| 80 | GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Julian D’Costa, Terence D’Costa, Ira D’Costa, Murlidharan VR |
PANAJI | OPEN | 18 (2*, 3) |
| 81 | THE NINCOMPOOPS
Anjali Sengupta, Lucano Alvares, Joseph d’Sousa, Sachin Chatte |
PANAJI | OPEN | 17 (4*) |
| 82 | FEBUXOSTAT
Anand Raja, Arjun A. Prabhakaran T, Lin Varghese |
THRISSUR | COLLEGE | 17 (3*, 6) |
| 83 | LADY BHAGA ETC NIT-TRICHY
Raghavendran,Arjun, Adhitya, Karthic |
CHENNAI | COLLEGE | 17 ( 3*, 3) |
| 84 | QUIZZY-LEAKS
Sheilen, Shiva, Arjun, Swamy |
COIMBATORE
City Winners |
OPEN | 16 (6*) |
| 85 | 1337
Anjan S, Aditya Sankaran, Vidyuth Anand, Aravind R |
COIMBATORE | OPEN | 16 (4*) |
| 86 | HUM DO HAMARE DO
Brajendu, Manav, Rakshit, Anjaney |
NEW DELHI | OPEN | 16 (2*) |
| 87 | WHAT’S IN A NAME
Shreyo Sadhu, Shreemayee, Siddharth, Kartikeya LOGOS Sankar R, Rajib, Izhar, Koushik |
KOLKATA
KOLKATA |
OPEN
OPEN |
16 (1*, 6)
16 (1*, 6) |
| 89 | QUIZZIGANS
Athith K, Subham Nandy, Sai Krishna Peri GUESSWORKS Aditya Gupta, Aditya Vikram, Arpan S. Nikhil Dubey |
BANGALORE
NEW DELHI |
SCHOOL
OPEN |
15 (3*, 4)
15 (3*, 4) |
| 91 | BOYE GECHE
Arindam Datta, Anagh Mukherjee, Debanjan Bose, JIshu Das Mazumdar |
KOLKATA | COLLEGE | 15 (2*, 8) |
| 92 | SARDAR PATEL VIDYALAYA
Akshit Goyal, Ayan Madan. Dhruv Saxena, Manas Tewari FIREWORKS Akshat, Parth, Digant, Prateek |
NEW DELHI
NEW DELHI |
COLLEGE
COLLEGE |
15 (2*, 7)
15 (2*, 7) |
| 94 | Siddharth, Sai Visesh, Keshav, Ashwin | CHENNAI | OPEN | 15 (2*, 3) |
| 95 | Senthil, Ashok, Yogesh Pai | COIMBATORE | OPEN | 15 (1*, 5) |
| 96 | BADNAAM JAWAANI
Krishna Akhil, Rohan Naidu, Syed Mustafa Hashmi, Rohit Rao |
HYDERABAD | COLLEGE | 15 (1*, 3) |
| 97 | VICTORIOUS SECRETS—BITS
Anirudh, Akshay, Francis, Ronak |
PANAJI | COLLEGE | 14 (4*) |
| 98 | MYSORE I-CLUE-GALU
Arun, Chandan, Kedar, Kenei TEAM NAME BATAO Bala, Sudhir, Mithun, Raghu |
BANGALORE
HYDERABAD |
OPEN
OPEN |
14 (3*, 4)
14 (3*, 4) |
| 100 | BEYOND THE VALLEY OF BOTTLES
Noufel Samad, Abdul Raouf, Rajasekhar, Jose Thomas THE THREE MOMOS Joydeep Nandi, Avadh Shah, Rohan Ranjan |
THRISSUR
KOLKATA |
OPEN
OPEN |
14 (2*, 5)
14 (2*, 5) |
Questions:
ANSWERS
Solus Rex Semis, Sense Of Femur and From CD to DC Open Quiz – Results
The results of three quizzes on Sunday 28th November 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists.
EVENT I: Solus Rex Semifinals
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das
Semi-Final 1 : Biopics
1. Arul Mani – 280
2. Keshav – 165
3. Vivek Karthikeyan – 95
4. Sandeep Mathias – 85
5. G. Sreekanth – didn’t turn up
Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India
1. Sudarshan M.A. – 175
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 170
3. Nakul P.S. – 145
4. Venkatesh S. – 120
5. Roshan N. Bhoj – didn’t turn up
The two winners qualify for the finals. Mitesh Agarwal is currently the best loser who gets into the finals, based on various factors like margin of defeat, %age of total points scored and absolute score.
EVENT II: The Humour and Comedy Quiz Sense of Femur
QM: Arul Mani
1. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Santosh Swaminathan – 55
2. Red Pan Humour, Da (Varun Rajiv & Mitesh Agarwal) – 42
3. Landmark Venky Has A Porn ‘stache (Thejaswi Udupa & Arun Hiregange) – 38
4. Swami & Raju – 35
5. Ochintya & Tups – 32
6. Eureqa! (Sreekanth G. & Satyajit Chetri) – 28
7. A Marxist of the Groucho Kind – 20
EVENT III: Ranking Specialist Open Quiz, From Charles Darwin to Divine Comedy – The way we were and the way we are
QMs: Urmila Lakshmanan and Shivkumar Kannan
1. Metaquizziks (Mitesh, Varun, Santosh, Arul) – 206
2. We Are Like This Wonly (Anustup, Ochintya, Thejaswi, Appu) – 205
3. Holy Nexus (Gautham, Rajagopal, Vivek Karthikeyan, Venkatesh S.) – 159
4. KD + Swami – 137
5. Eureqa! (Alagarsamy, G. Sreekanth, Shamanth Rao, Satyajit Chetri) – 131
6. Flight of the Vayu Vajras (Aditya, Abhishek, Sohan, Karthik) – 122
7. Other CIDs from Kerala (KP, Ravi, Abid, Roshith) – 107
8. Desperately Seeking Qualification (Sana, Pantan, Vinod & Sumeer) – 92
Mega-Whats 2010–Registrations
Registrations via email are now closed. City Coordinators may accept entries based on available seating. In Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, wait-listed teams will be given seats if confirmed teams do not show up.
Thank you for the enthusiastic response! We will try and ensure bigger venues next year.
All confirmed teams will receive an e- mail notification by Thursday (9th December). Waitlisted teams are advised to report at 1430hrs to check on available seating.
A full list of venues will go up tomorrow.
BANGALORE
- MW10BAN01 RVCE (Sudarshan M.A)
- MW10BAN02 Unusual Suspects (Debajyoti Adhikari)
- MW10BAN03 Metaquizziks (Mitesh Agarwal)
- MW10BAN05 eureQa! (Sreekanth G.)
- MW10BAN06 Comfortably Dumb (Siddarth Pai)
- MW10BAN07 Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das)
- MW10BAN08 Flight of the Vayu-Vajraas (Aditya S.)
- MW10BAN09 Nishanth Appaiah and team
- MW10BAN10 Holy Nexus (Landmark Venky)
- MW10BAN11 We Are Like This Wonly (‘Zizzyphus’ Udupa)
- MW10BAN12 Sri Kumaran–State Board (Pranav V.C.)
- MW10BAN13 Retards From Limbo (Vinay Goddemme)
- MW10BAN14 Flight of the Kozhi Curries (Keshav Athreya)
- MW10BAN15 Keep Distance (Rahul Kottalgi)
- MW10BAN16 Mysore I-clue-galu (Arun Kumar)
- MW10BAN17 Rajat Upadhyaya and team
- MW10BAN18 Never Mind the Sex Pistols (Goutam)
- MW10BAN19 Viswesh Rammohan and team
- MW10BAN20 RV Good Enough?
- MW10BAN21 Urmila Lakshmanan and team
- MW10BAN22 Sri Kumaran–ICSE (Athith K)
- MW10BAN23 Lahar Appaiah and team
- MW10BAN24 Team ADMK (Kripakaran)
- MW10BAN25 Shwetha Maiya and team
- MW10BAN26 Cro-Magnon Crooks (Ayan Ghosh)
- MW10BAN27 Avneesh Duggal and team
- MW10BAN28 Quizzoholics (Jayendra Bisnik)
- MW10BAN29 Schrodinger’s Felines (Gautam Shenoy)
- MW10BAN30 Sandeep Mathias and team
- MW10BAN31 IISc (Srinivasan)
- MW10BAN32 Kalyanjit Ghosh and team
- MW10BAN33 Tanmay Agarwal and team
- MW10BAN34 Inglourious Mustards (Anup)
- MW10BAN35 Les Questionnables (Indu S)
- MW10BAN36 Hammurabis (Vinay Vasisht)
Bangalore Waitlist
- Tejeshwar and team
- Nipun V and team
- NPS Rajajinagar (Sagar)
- Siri Srinivas and team
- Vikram Sreeram and team
- Umang Srivastava and team
- Jeydev C S and team
- ABCD (Niranjan and team)
- Comm On The Cobb (Megha and team)
- Hunchmen (Vrashabh Irde and team)
- 4G ke Scam (Jassim Moideen)
- Girish Menon and team.
- Vivek Choudhary and team
- Gopal Kalita and team
- Siddarth Krishnkumar and team
- SJBHS—Akshay Tiwari and team
- Krishna Prasad. N & Team
- Sharath Babu and team
- Rahul Gaur and team
- Ameya Koushik and team
- Shashank Sridhar and team
CHENNAI
- MW10CHE01 Rajagopal P.S and team
- MW10CHE02 Dhakkan Chargers (Anil Kumar)
- MW10CHE03 QED (Gopal Kidao)
- MW10CHE04 Quarter , Half & a Feeding Bottle (Arun R)
- MW10CHe05 S.B.O.A. School (Aditthya R)
- MW10CHE06 Insignificant Others (Sreeram)
- MW10CHE07 Obama’s Memory Banks (Navin Jayakumar)
- MW10CHE08 Prashanth Mukundan and team
- MW10CHe09 Raghuvansh, Aditya and team
- MW10CHE10 Main Gate to Barkhagate (Jayadev B)
- MW10CHE11 Ashwin Shanker and team
- MW10CHE12 Harish Swaminathan and team
- MW10CHE13 R Tamizhmarai and team
- MW10CHE14 Desperately Seeking Qualification (Ananth)
- MW10CHE15 Sridhar Joshi and team
- MW10CHE16 Ina Mina Dika Dika (Akshay Rangamani)
- MW10CHE17 Sridhar C. and team
- MW10CHE18 Clockwork Oranges (Siddharth)
- MW10CHE19 Swarun Krishna and team
- MW10CHE20 We’re Fourking Awesome (Athreya)
- MW10CHE21 Money in the Bank (Venkataramanan)
- MW10CHE22 Vignesh Vijayakumar and team
- MW10CHE23 K Shivaprakaash and team
- MW10CHE24 Countryfellows (Siddharth)
- MW10CHE25 Hardly any Time To Prepare (Adithya Rangamani)
Chennai Waitlist
- Raghavendran R. and team
- Rashmin Gandhi and team
HYDERABAD
- MW10HYD01 Vivek Sekar and team
- MW10HYD02 Uncomfortably Dumb (Varun Shenoy)
- MW10HYD03 Swami and Friends (Nitish Khadiya)
- MW10HYD04 Jayaraman Sabarisan and team
- MW10HYD05 Teja Talent School (Vinod Reddy)
- MW10HYD06 Rohan Naidu and team
- MW10HYD07 Vikas Khurana and team
- MW10HYD08 Super Three (Rajeswar Rao)
- MW10HYD09 Aditya Vikram and team
- MW10HYD10 Error 404 – Team Not Found (Shreyas)
- MW10HYD11 Ravi Chandra V and team
- MW10HYD12 Syed Murtuza Hashmi and team
- MW10HYD13 Anoop Thomas and team
- MW10HYD14 Debjit Das Gupta and team
- MW10HYD15 Pankaj Rodey and team
- MW10HYD16 Rakesh Krishnan and team
- MW10HYD17 Karthik Muthuraman and team
- MW10HYD18 We 4 Wictory (Santhosh Kumar)
- MW10HYD19 Mithun Paul and team
- MW10HYD20 Sudhir Pai and team
Hyderabad Wait-list
- Vijay Jeedigunta and team
- Pooja Gupta and team
- Sreemathy Surender and team
- Manohar Burra and team
- Aakash Puttige and team
- Prashanti Kalyan and team
- Anang Rawat and team
- Pallav Bhattacharya and team
KOLKATA
- MW10KOL01 Sudip Kalyan Dey and team
- MW10KOL02 Inmaniacs (Gautam Ghosh)
- MW10KOL03 Hammer and Tongs (Kinshuk Biswas)
- MW10KOL04 Bong Connection (Ashoke Sanyal)
- MW10KOL05 Logos (Rajib Roy)
- MW10KOL06 Permanent Lapse Of Reason (Sreshth Shah)
- MW10KOL07 IIM Calcutta (Charan Kumar)
- MW10KOL08 Tcha! God I Forgot! (Nidhi Rao)
- MW10KOL09 IIM Calcutta (Gairik Datta)
- MW10KOL10 Abhijith Kamath and team
- MW10KOL11 IIM Calcutta (Joydeep Nandi)
- MW10KOL12 Potoldanga Thunder Club (Prithwish Datta)
- MW10KOL13 Quizzers’ Utopia (Sagnik C)
- MW10KOL14 Lateral Thinkers (Kaushik Mukherjee)
- MW10KOL15 Boye Geche (Anagh Mukherjee)
- MW10KOL16 Last Action Heroes (Partha Ghatak)
- MW10KOL17 La Martiniere (Proneet De)
- MW10KOL18 Priyanka Mukherjee and team
- MW10KOL19 Prasun Singha and team
- MW10KOL20 Soubhadra Chakrabarty and team
- MW10KOL21 Barrackpore Boys (Pradipta Chattopadhyay)
- MW10KOL22 Siddhant Agarwal and team
MUMBAI
- MW10MUM01 Vikram Joshi and team
- MW10MUM02 Atul Mathew and team
- MW10MUM03 Abhinav Dasgupta and team
- MW10MUM04 Mangal Parekh and team
- MW10MUM05 Dileep V and team
- MW10MUM06 Govind Grewal and team
- MW10MUM07 Prasad Sawant and team
- MW10MUM08 Anirudh Patil and team
- MW10MUM09 Mera Naam Joka (Arnav Sinha)
- MW10MUM10 Prasann Potdar and team
- MW10MUM11 Chintan Kouloorkar and team
- MW10MUM12 Abhijith Singh and team
- MW10MUM13 Debasish Misra and team
- MW10MUM14 Abhishek Joshi and team
- MW10MUM15 Kapil Dahiya and team
- MW10MUM16 Sushil Shanbhag and team
NEW DELHI
- MW10DEL01 Free Trade Warriors (Abhijith B)
- MW10DEL02 God of All Things (Mukund Marodia)
- MW10DEL03 Puneeth Nagaraj and team
- MW10DEL04 Siddhartha Bannerjee and team
- MW10DEL05 QuizTeamAguilera (Ajay Poonia)
- MW10DEL06 Whatever! (Tushar Krishnan)
- MW10DEL07 Joy Bhattacharya and team
- MW10DEL08 Brajendu Bhaskar and team
- MW10DEL09 If Only We Were Rajnikant (Akash Pandey)
- MW10DEL10 Kumal Malhotra and team
- MW10DEL11 Suman Ray and team
- MW10DEL12 Guneet Malik and team
- MW10DEL13 Shubhendu Saha and team
- MW10DEL14 Ravi Handa and team
- MW10DEL15 Abhinav Gandhi and team
- MW10DEL16 The Internet Boys (Apoorv Avram)
- MW10DEL17 Matter of Perception (Akshit Goyal)
- MW10DEL18 Suman Saraf and team
- MW10DEL19 Kumar Vaibhav Tanwar and team
- MW10DEL20 Lijo James and team
- MW10DEL21 Abhaas Mohan and team
- MW10DEL22 Ajay Jaisinghani and team.
- MW10DEL23 Shubham Prakhar and team
- MW10DEL24 Raghu Pant and team
- MW10DEL25 K. Suresh and team
- MW10DEL26 Shubham Jain and team
- MW10DEL27 The Unusual Suspects (Tanya Mehta)
- MW10DEL28 Abhimanyu Sanghi and team
PANAJI
- MW10PAN01 Don Bosco High School (Reuben Rodrigues)
- MW10PAN02 Feni, Vidi, Vici, Twitchy (Rajiv D’ Silva)
- MW10PAN03 KV INS Mandovi (Atharv Joshi)
- MW10PAN04 Prajakt Kamath and team
- MW10PAN05 Conrad Fernandes and team
- MW10PAN06 Gourish Amonkar and team
- MW10PAN07 Ira Almeida and team
- MW10PAN08 Akash Kulkarni and team
- MW10PAN09 Aniket Pant and team
- MW10PAN10 Kunal Naik and team
- MW10PAN11 Rajesh Panicker and team
- MW10PAN12 Victorious Secrets (Akshay S)
- MW10PAN13 Prajakt Kamat and team
- MW10PAN14 Anjali SenGupta and team
- MW10PAN15 Rajdeep B. Prabhugaonker and team.
- MW10PAN16 Gaurav Kenkre and team
PUNE
- MW10PUN01 Ramanand J and team
- MW10PUN02 Dark Horses (Anup Jha)
- MW10PUN03 Nikhil Motlag and team
- MW10PUN04 COEP (Rohan Prabhu)
- MW10PUN05 Sanskriti Dawle and team
- MW10PUN06 Sushruth Ravish and team
- MW10PUN07 Prashant Sinha and team
- MW10PUN08 Ayush Agrawal and team
- MW10PUN09 Vikas Khurana and team
- MW10PUN10 Siddharth Singh and team
THRISSUR
- MW10THR01 Noufel Samed and team
- MW10THR02 Insert Uncool Name Here (Anil Raghavan)
- MW10THR03 Guessworks, Inc. (Hrishikesh Varma)
- MW10THR04 Marygiri Senior Secondary School (Jerrin V)
- MW10THR05 Chandrakant Nair and team
- MW10THR06 Nithish Jacob and team
- MW10THR07 Anand Raja and team
- MW10THR08 Midhun V Zachariah and team
- MW10THR09 Eldo N Baby and team
- MW10THR10 CUSAT (Praveen V.)
- MW10THR11 Manu Sathian and team
- MW10THR12 Akarsh Valsan and team (Sandeepani)
- MW10THR13 Abhijeet Balakrishnan and team
- MW10THR14 Leena M. and team
- MW10THR15 Rithwik K and team
Mega-Whats 2010: KQA’s National Open Quizzing Championship
This is to announce the second edition of Mega-Whats, our National Open Quizzing Championship.
The quiz will be held across ten cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have venue confirmations from Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa, Thrissur, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Coimbatore and Kolkata
The details:
Date: Sunday, 12 December 2010
QMs: Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani
1. General quiz, open to all.
2. Teams of FOUR members (or less).
3. Prior registration is essential.
4. To register, please email Mahaquizzer@gmail.com with Mega-Whats 2010 and the city you are competing from in the subject-header.
5. Please provide the names of the four people who comprise your team in the email–also indicate whether you are taking part in the school, college or open categories
6. Email registrations will close on Tuesday 7th December 2010. Centre coordinators will allow entries after the cut-off date at their discretion.
7. Please note that the quizzing community in your city may charge an entry fee to meet venue and equipment hire expenses.
8. The school category is open only to teams comprising students from Std. VIII-X .
9. School teams ( Std. VIII-X) are allowed free entry. A school may field ONE team.
10. Please report by 1430hrs at the venue in your city. Since we need to ensure a coordinated start nationwide, the quiz will start at 1500hrs sharp. The doors will be closed five minutes before we begin.
11. Contesting teams will answer in writing a quiz of six sections and about sixty questions, inclusive of audios, videos and visuals.
12. Answers and scores will be announced immediately after the event–prizes will be given out for Best School Team, Best College Team, and Best Open Team.
13. The prizes aren’t small–they are insignificant.
14. We will rank the top 100 teams across the country–this list will go up by the 25th of December.
15. The rankings will be announced after adjudication. The decision of the quiz-masters will be final and binding on all participants.
16. The city-winners will face off in June 2011 as part of the KQA 28th Anniversary.
For more details, please call 97312-14519
VENUES
Bangalore
First Floor, Institute of Agricultural Technologists
Queen’s Road
Bangalore
Contact: Mitesh Agarwal (98452-59423)
Chennai
PS Senior Secondary school,
# 33, Alarmelmangapuram,
Mylapore,Chennai 600004
Contact: Jayakanthan (94444-43347)
Coimbatore
PSG Institute of Management,
Peelamedu Coimbatore
Contact: Arjun (09944709086)
Hyderabad
Landmark Store,
Road No 12,
Banjara Hills
Hyderabad.
Contact: Nitish Khadiya (91-98856-79460)
Kolkata
Unitedworld School of Business
Infinity Benchmark Tower
10th floor, Plot G1, Block EP&GP
Sector-V, Salt Lake City
Kolkata-700091
Contact: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee (91-98363-44694)
Mumbai
Hall, 6th floor, Management College,
IES MCRC “Vishwakarma” M.D. Lotlikar Vidya Sankul,
791, S. K. Marg,
Bandra Reclamation (Opp Lilavati hospital),
Mumbai – 400 050
Contact: Vibhendu (9820410952)
Panaji
The International Centre – Goa,
Dona Paula, Panaji.
Pune
Seminar Hall II
(Next to main Auditorium),
College of Engineering, Pune (COEP),
Shivajinagar, Pune-5
Contact: Mohit Karve (9890777964)
Thrissur
Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute,
Near Shakthan Thampuran Bus Stand,Thrissur 680005
Contact: Arun AS (09895859164)
Quizzes on Sunday 28 November 2010
We will hold three quizzes on Sunday 28th November 2010 at the Institute of Agricultural Technologists
EVENT I
Solus Rex Semifinals
The lineups and topics for the first two semifinals are given below.
Semi-Final 1 : Biopics
1. Arul Mani – 21
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5
Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11
Qualifiers unable to make it on the 28th will be allowed to sit for the second set of semis IF another qualifier from the second set drops out.
QMs: Arun Hiregange and Dibyendu Das
Prizes: Rs. 500 for the winner and Rs. 250 for the other semi-finalists.
TIME: 1000hrs-1230hrs
EVENT II
The postponed Humour and Comedy Quiz Sense of Femur, if the QM’s femur holds up.
1400hrs-1500hrs
EVENT III
Ranking Specialist Open Quiz
CD to DC- the last 201 years by UL and KS.
From Charles Darwin to Divine Comedy- The way we were and the way we are.
Quizmasters: Urmila Lakshmanan and Shivkumar Kannan.
Teams of four members.
Open to all.
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1700hrs
Prizes
Rs. 2000/-, Rs. 1500/- and Rs. 1000/-
Solus Rex Topics for Semifinals 1 & 2
The lineups of the four semi-finals and topics for the first two are given below. They were derived by arranging scores in boustrophedon order, with tied scores resolved first using *-ed questions and then using alphabetical order of first names.
The first two semi-finals will be held on Sunday 28th Nov 2010.
Semi-Final 1 : Biopics
1. Arul Mani – 21
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5
Semi-Final 2 : National Parks in India
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11
Semi-Final 3
3. Thejaswi Udupa – 18
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 15
11. Rajagopal P.S. – 12.5
14. Maitrey Deshpande – 12
19. Sohan – 11
Semi-Final 4
4. Anustup Datta – 17
5. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 16
12. Hrishi Varma – 12.5
13. Praveen V.R. – 12.5
20. Raouf – 10.5
Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein and Open Quiz – Results
The results of two quizzes held on Sunday, 24th October 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I: Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein, a quiz on the 1940s, the 1950s and the 1960s
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
1. Arun Hiregange & Movin Miranda – 157.5
2. Anustup Datta & Thejaswi Udupa – 140
3. Rahul S. Kottalgi & Nishanth – 105
4. Rajagopal & Pallavi – 90
5. eureQa! (G. Sreekanth & Alagarsamy) / Questionable Characters (Dibyendu Das & Praveen) – both tied on 85
7. CIDs from Kerala (Hrishi Varma & Jithin Jacob) – 77.5
8. Non-Aligned Quizzers (Rajeev Gowda & Urmila) – 75
Event II: The October Open Quiz
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
1. We Are Like This Wonly (Movin Miranda, Anustup Datta, Ochintya Sharma, Arun Hiregange) – 155
2. eureQa! (Satyajit Chetri, Rajagopal, Alagarsamy, G. Sreekanth) – 135
3. Questionable Characters (Hiranyappa, Dibyendu Das, Praveen) – 125
4. Keep Distance (Rahul S. Kottalgi, Nishanth, Rajath & team) – 120
5. Santosh Swaminathan, Sohan, Husain Poonawalla, Gautham – 110
6. Sandeep Mathias & team – 85
7. Why So Curious (Ashwan, Kaustuba, Navin Rajaram & Pallavi) – 80
8. CIDs from Kerala (Hrishi Varma, Jithin Jacob, Raouf & team) – 60
Quizzes on Sunday 24 October 2010
We will hold two quizzes on Sunday, 24th October 2010 at The Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bangalore.
EVENT I
Abba Ke (Abba Ke) Zamane Mein
A quiz on the 1940s, the 1950s and the 1960s.
Rules
Teams of two members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1500/-, Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 750/-
Prelims: 1015-1100hrs
Finals: 1130-1330hrs
QMs: Ochintya Sharma and Arul Mani
Event II
The October Open Quiz
Rules
Teams of 4 members
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
Prizes: Rs. 1200/-, Rs 1000/- and Rs. 800/- plus prizes for all finalists
QM: Thejaswi Udupa
IF the first quiz finishes on time we will hold an intercalary written quiz on comedy and laughter titled Sense A Femur.
Teams of two members
50 written questions
Entry Fee; Rs. 50/-
QM: Arul Mani
Schedule
Sense of Femur: 1400-1500hrs
Registrations for Open Quiz: 1500hrs
Open Quiz Prelims: 1530hrs
Finals: 1630-1830hrs.
Sense A Femur will otherwise be put up on Slideshare.
Canara Union Lone Wolf and Solus Rex Prelims – Results
These are the results of the quizzes held on Sunday 10th October 2010 at the Canara Union premises, 8th Main Malleswaram.
Event I: Canara Union Lone Wolf Quiz
QM: Navin Rajaram
1. Arul Mani – 195
2. Arun Hiregange – 110
3. Santosh Swaminathan – 100 (by winning tie-breaker)
4. Anustup Datta – 100
5. Thejaswi Udupa – 75
6. Rajagopal P.S. – 60
7. Satyajit Chetri – 40
8. Mitesh Agarwal – 25
Event II: Solus Rex 2010 Prelims
QMs: Dibyendu Das and Arun Hiregange
The 20 qualifiers:
1. Arul Mani – 21
2. Mitesh Agarwal – 19.5
3. Thejawsi Udupa – 18
4. Anustup Datta – 17
5. Rahul S. Kottalgi – 16
6. Santosh Swaminathan – 15
7. Sudarshan M.A. – 14
8. G. Sreekanth – 13
9. Vivek Karthikeyan – 13
10. Nakul P.S. – 12.5
11. Rajagopal P.S. – 12.5
12. Hrishkesh Varma – 12.5
13. Praveen V.R. – 12.5
14. Maitrey Deshpande – 12
15. Venkatesh S. – 12
16. Keshav – 11.5
17. Sandeep Mathias – 11.5
18. Roshan N. Bhoj – 11
19. Sohan – 11
20. Raouf – 10.5
People on the same score were separated first by using the * questions and then alphabetical order of their first name.
